Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 3

• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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• In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
  is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
  and bearing one another's burdens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Ratios, Burden

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, May, Creation

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• What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Teammate

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, People, Ignorant

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• There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ocean, Men, Wind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.131

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• That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Years

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• Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.40

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• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Simplicity, Elegance, Approach

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• Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Christian, Morning

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Men, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Anything Worth Doing

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• A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Majority, Population

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

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• There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Mouths, Quarrels

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life And Love, Taken, People

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Fashion, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Optimism, Architect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Hard Times, Rocks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.72

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Men, Broken

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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